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Seeing the tribe's dispossession, on December 30, 1911 Helen J. Stewart, owner of the pre-railroad Las Vegas Rancho, deeded 10 acres (4.0 ha) of spring-fed downtown Las Vegas land to the Paiutes, creating the Las Vegas Indian Colony. Until 1983 this was the tribe's only communal land, forming a small "town within a town" in downtown Las Vegas.
Prior to the 1850s, the Paiute people lived relatively peacefully with the other Native American groups. These groups included the Navajo, Ute, and Hopi peoples. [6] Though there was the occasional tension and violent outbreaks between groups, the Paiute were mainly able to live in peace with other tribes and settlers due to their loose social structure.
Northern Paiute: 853 [1] 529.97 Churchill, Lyon, Mineral: Washoe Tribe: Washoe: 1,116 [2] 64,300 Douglas: Includes Carson Colony, Dresslerville Colony, Stewart Community and Washoe Ranch. The tribe also maintains a colony in Alpine County, California. Winnemucca Indian Colony: Northern Paiute, Western Shoshone: 17 [2] 320 Humboldt: Yerington ...
Las Vegas Tribe of Paiute Indians of the Las Vegas Indian Colony, Nevada; Lovelock Paiute Tribe of the Lovelock Indian Colony, Nevada; Moapa Band of Paiute Indians of the Moapa River Indian Reservation, Nevada; Paiute-Shoshone Tribe of the Fallon Reservation and Colony, Nevada; Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe of the Pyramid Lake Reservation, Nevada
Las Vegas Tribe of Paiute Indians of the Las Vegas Indian Colony; Lovelock Paiute Tribe of the Lovelock Indian Colony; M. Martis people; Moapa Band of Paiute Indians;
SCHURZ, Nev. (AP) — For Mon PMs; NVSG101-118; for print lines only; w/video __ Members of the Walker River Paiute Tribe have watched the boundaries of their land recede over time, along with the ...
Las Vegas Tribe of Paiute Indians of the Las Vegas Indian Colony; Lovelock Paiute Tribe of the Lovelock Indian Colony; P.
Paiute (/ ˈ p aɪ juː t /; also Piute) refers to three non-contiguous groups of Indigenous peoples of the Great Basin.Although their languages are related within the Numic group of Uto-Aztecan languages, these three languages do not form a single subgroup and they are no more closely related to each than they are to the Central Numic languages (Timbisha, Shoshoni, and Comanche) which are ...